Uganda's Idi Amin Missing Report Denied by Officials
Nairobi Daily Nation cited unverified sources claiming an assassination attempt and disappearance on Friday near Entebbe. Ugandan officials dismissed the report as false, while a home call suggested Amin had not been seen since Friday and searches were underway at Murchison Falls.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Idi Amin
Amin
Daily Nation
Bagitabire
Entebbe
Information Ministry
Kampala
Uganda
Lake
Victoria
North Carolina Considers Horse Racing Revenue Study
Agriculture Commissioner Jim Graham backs a resolution creating a seven member commission to study legalizing horse racing and pari mutuel betting in North Carolina. The plan aims to determine potential education highway and agriculture revenue, with interim findings due January 16, 1978 and final report by January 16, 1979.
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Raleigh
Jim Graham
North Carolina
Graham
House Natural and Economic Resources Committee
Commissioner of Agriculture
Hollerin contest draws crowd in Spivey’s Corner
Dennis Patterson reports from Spivey’s Corner North Carolina where the National Hollerin’ Contest drew about 5000 spectators. Winners Dan McLamb of Roseboro and runner-up Skinner Barber of Benson along with old-time hollerin performers showcased the folk art amid sun and lemonade.
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Spivey's
N.C
Sampson County
Paul Kendall
Whiteville
Kendall
Dan McLamb
Roseboro
Skinner Barber
Benson
Myself
Marine Corps
Camp Lejeune
Students Face Record College Costs This Fall
The College Entrance Board reports private four year on campus costs at 4905 for 1977 78 and public four year on campus at 3005 up from last year. Financial aid is recommended as a key option even for higher income families.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
College
College Board
Elizabeth Suchar
Alaska Pipeline Begins Oil Flow
The Prudhoe Bay to Valdez project starts oil flow signaling the pipeline’s operability. 1.2 million barrels daily expected. pipeline cost $7.7 billion plus $4 billion for wells. Nine years of planning concluded with low key startup as oil moves from well to Pump Station No. 1.
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Pradhoe Bay
Alaska
William Darch
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co
Prudhoe Bay
Arctic Ocean
Arctic Circle
Valdez
Prince William Sound
Alyeska
U.S. Interior Department
North Slope
Court Rules States Not Liable For Abortions
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that neither the Constitution nor federal law requires states to pay for elective abortions when a mother's life is not endangered. The decision upheld state discretion to fund or withhold abortion costs for indigent women and extended no obligation on public hospitals to provide abortions. It reaffirmed the 1973 privacy right ruling governing early pregnancy abortions.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
High Court
States
Lewis F. Powell Jr
Warren E. Burger
Byron R. White
William H. Rehnquist
Potter Stewart
John Paul Stevens
Thurgood Marshall
William J. Brennan Jr
Harry A. Blackmun
Powell
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Murchison Falls
Mustafa Adrisi
Adrisi
Radio Uganda
Mhulue Dellinge
House Appropriations Committee
Rep
Wilda Hurst
D-Onslow
Hollerin
Dennis Patterson
Fayetteville Times
Trans—Alaska Pipeline
Arctic
Pacifi
Fairbanks
Velde
Inlfield
Valdez Terminal
Prince William Sewad
Alaska Pipeline
Pduvanaves
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